This video updates on our 2019 report which highlighted problems arising in the UK nuclear weapons programme, the overall total cost of the programme and the need for policy changes to address a situation that is becoming increasingly unsustainable.
Submarine Dismantling latest news
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Devonport in ‘special measures’: no end date in sight
Devonport Royal Dockyard Limited (DRDL) remains under enhanced regulatory attention by the Office For Nuclear Regulation (ONR), and no date is given for an expected return to routine regulatory attention.
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Trouble Ahead: Risks and Rising Costs in the UK Nuclear Weapons Programme
This report looks at the problems arising in the UK nuclear weapons programme, the overall total cost of the programme and the need for policy changes to address a situation that is becoming increasingly unsustainable.
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Capenhurst selected as interim storage site for submarine reactor vessels
The Ministry of Defence has selected the Capenhurst Nuclear Services site in Cheshire as the preferred site to store radioactive reactor pressure vessels from dismantled nuclear submarines. The selection of a site concludes a process begun in 2012 and means that decommissioning work can begin on the submarines.
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Submarine Dismantling Project – What Next?
The Ministry of Defence will annouce the decision from its Submarine Dismantling Project in summer 2016 – but what will happen next?
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Public views on disposal of nuclear submarine waste published by Ministry of Defence
The results of a public consultation programme on the location of a storage site for radioactive waste from decommissioned nuclear submarines have been published by the Ministry of Defence.
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NIS response to Ministry of Defence Submarine Dismantling Consultation
Read the reponse by Nuclear Information Service to consultation by the Ministry of Defence on proposals for the interim storage of radioactive waste from decommissioned nuclear powered submarines.
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Consent granted for submarine dismantling at Rosyth dockyard
The Office for Nuclear Regulation has granted consent for a project to decommission seven out-of-service nuclear submarines currently stored afloat at Rosyth Royal Naval Dockyard in Fife.
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Submarine waste storage and the Atomic Weapons Establishment – a briefing for local residents
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will this week (14 November) begin consulting local people on the possibility of storing radioactive waste from nuclear powered submarines at Atomic Weapons Establishment sites in West Berkshire, and Nuclear Information Service has prepared a briefing for local people to help them understand the issues involved and have their say […]
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Submarine waste site selection consultation begins
The Ministry of Defence has announced its final shortlist of candidate sites for the storage of intermediate-level radioactive waste from decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines and is about to embark upon a fourteen-week programme of public consultation to select a suitable storage site for the waste.
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Consultation to commence on storage sites for submarine radioactive wastes
The Ministry of Defence is set to begin public consultation this autumn to identify a location for the storage of radioactive waste from the Royal Navy's out-of-service nuclear submarines.
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Shortlist of potential storage sites for submarine radioactive waste published
The Ministry of Defence has published a shortlist of five nuclear sites across the UK which it has identified as potential locations for the storage of radioactive waste from disused nuclear-powered submarines.